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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… any goods not obtainable locally, but with a bias towards DRAPERY and GROCERY. For example, under the heading 'Mercery … mercers and sold a huge range of goods; GROCERY, WOOLLEN DRAPERY and LINEN DRAPERY, HABERDASHERY, SALTERY and much else besides. Usually …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the west side of Cornmarket, just north of Carfax, lay the drapery, first recorded c. 1220; in 1349 the Cornmarket frontage was called the old drapery, and there were shops in a new drapery in Drapery Lane, which ran west from Cornmarket and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… William Samm, 1691, oval stone tablet with laurel-border, drapery and cornice. In naveon N. wall, (8) to Susanna … and the string under the landing is carved with swags of drapery, fruit and flowers; the soffit of the third flight …
Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors
… on Our Lord's head; to His right is an Angel holding some drapery. "The baptism is flanked by two pairs of Agnus Deis, …
Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors
… to have been prosperous tradesmen connected with the drapery or woollen trade. His mother, Ann Staper, was …
Memorials of London and London Life
… that have lately arrived in the Port of London, any drapery, cloths, vestments, or other merchandize, or bread, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… (Plate 23) has an enriched panelled overmantel with drapery swags above and pendants of fruit and flowers at the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… in 1823. Shops in 1897 included a grocer's, a grocery cum drapery, and probably two butchers', and a tailor then kept …
Middlesex county records
… worth fourteen shillings, with divers other articles of drapery (including four-and-a-half yards of white mockado …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… front of tomb-chest, marble inscription panels simulating drapery. Adjacent to S., (3) of Sir John Tregonwell, 1565, … fireplace surround of carved freestone, with pendant drapery on the jambs, a scroll frieze and terminal consoles … with plaster enrichments in the form of acanthus leaves, drapery festoons and scroll-work. The vault has a square …